PORTLAND, Maine — Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey is going to have to wait a few months to find out if he can practice law in Maine, where he hopes to restart his legal career.

The Board of Bar Examiners has appealed a supreme court justice's decision allowing Bailey to set up a law practice, meaning there will be additional court filings and a hearing that could carry the process into the fall.

Bailey, 80, said he hopes to eventually resume trial work, as he had throughout a legal career that included high-profile clients like O.J. Simpson.